Excerpt from: Wall Street Journal (click for full article)
With Senate and House Conferees now named to help guide, shape and direct the final state budget towards ultimate passage, the Texas Health Care Association (THCA) encouraged the lawmakers to ensure Texas nursing homes and the vulnerable patients under their care receive the priority required to help cope with the operational instability caused by 2011's $58 million state Medicaid cut and the new $51 million federal Medicare cut, now in effect.
"As we enter the home stretch of the legislative session, we believe the most significant piece of unfinished business is ensuring Texas' most vulnerable frail, elderly and disabled Medicaid-dependent nursing home patients can continue to access the quality care they deserve by making sure state nursing homes remain operationally stable in the face of deep Medicaid and Medicare cuts," said Tim Graves, President of THCA.
"We look forward to working with Conferees in a constructive, positive manner to ensure they are appropriately aware how their local facilities are increasingly struggling with shrinking resources in the face of growing numbers of patients requiring the type of 24/7/365 care that can only be found in their local skilled nursing facility," the THCA leader continued.
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